If you feel emotionally blocked or have trouble with your relationships, past life regression may help you access and fix problems that have developed over lifetimes. Believers in past life regression therapy feel that, by allowing your subconscious to reach deep into areas that have been formed by your lives in the past, you can heal fears and anxieties that you never knew existed.. Practitioners of past life regression say that all of us have lived any number of times before and that we carry the emotions and experiences of these lives with us into each new incarnation. If we had negative experiences, we may feel the effects today, but not know why we are having certain problems. Past life regression is thought by many to be the only way to truly heal old wounds so that you can move forward and find success in your career and personal life.

What is Past Life Regression?Most people who work with past life regression feel that relationship that naturally occurs between two people can be carried over from lifetime to lifetime. If you betrayed a spouse in one life, you may be reunited with the spirit of that spouse in this life so that you have the opportunity to work out past problems. This doesn’t mean we have the same relationships over again. Many believers feel that our spirits come together, but not necessarily with the same dynamic. You may have been married in one life, but in this one you are mother and daughter or even co-workers. The underlying problems can be the same, but the relationships have changed.

People who practice past life regression therapy feel that we all carry emotional scars from experiences in our past lives and that these can only be healed with the proper therapy.

They say that the roots of all mental and emotional conditioning are derived from these subconscious scars. Once these scars are cleared using past life regression, the person can start on a new path toward enlightenment. Because these scars are buried so deeply, other forms of therapy such as talk therapy and psychoanalysis can’t fully reach the areas that need to be healed.

When doing a past life regression, hypnosis of some form usually plays a role. It is necessary to be completely relaxed and open to the possibilities, and many practitioners do this with hypnosis or relaxation therapy. The most common way to experience past life regression is to go to a practitioner who can safely guide you through the process. The practitioner will assist you in your relaxation and offer suggestions so that you can get deep into your subconscious and access the places where these memories lie. Because most of us have lived so many times, the ego is now very rigid and our negative emotional conditioning is set in place, which is often difficult to alter.

Meaningful past life regression will have you actually experience the emotions that you felt during that lifetime and during the portion that you are reliving.

In order to truly free the mind from the repressed emotions that have been built up, it is important to not just have the memory of this time, but to actually go back and experience the thoughts and feelings all over again.

Only then can you begin to free yourself from the emotional conditioning that has followed you through your lives to today.

How Does Past Life Regression Work?When you go to a past life regression therapist, each one will have their own techniques for relaxation and bringing you to the place where healing can begin. Several practitioners have put their techniques into past life regression how-to books and online past life regression seminars and audio files. Using these techniques, you can try past life regression in private and practice the therapy regularly, although until you learn the process it can be helpful to have someone read the script to you or to record it so that you can play it back during your session. Past life regression will usually follow this similar pattern:

* You will first be told to take the instructions slowly and totally relax. The more you relax, the deeper you will be able to go in the subconscious and find the answers you need.

* Lie down or sit in a comfortable chair, with your clothing loose and the temperature at a comfortable level.

* Start when you will have about 45 minutes of undisturbed time.

* Pick an intention. What do you want to get out of the session? Do you want to delve into your relationship with your spouse? Do you need to unblock your career? Put your intention into a phrase, such as: “I need information about a past personality as it relates to my husband.”

* You will then be instructed in a relaxation exercise. This usually involves walking down a flight of stairs or seeing a warm golden ball that will relax each part of your body.

* At this point, the practitioner will tell you that you see a door. Going through the door will allow you to experience a moment from a past life. It is always your choice whether to go through the door or not.

* Once you have relived a past life moment, the therapist will then bring you out of your relaxed state so you feel refreshed and ready for the rest of the day.

KarmaKarma means “action” in Sanskrit, and no discussion of past life regression can be complete without talking about it. Buddha taught that the circumstances of each individual birth is the result of past life karma. Every word, thought and action is reflected back with positive and negative energy. Part of past life regression is to learn from the karmic mistakes that have been made in previous existences so that the person can learn to have sincere and good thoughts and actions. People who believe in karma feel that this is not a linear path where the thoughts and deeds from one life directly affect the next, but that the cumulative affects of past karma affect your life today.

Past Life Reading

You can also get a past life regression reading by a qualified practitioner who has a gift for seeing into people’s subconscious.

While this may not be as effective as having the experience yourself, many people feel that simply by accessing the truth about their past lives, they get a deeper understanding of their life today. It can be helpful if you want a more subjective experience or are resistant to hypnosis.

In order to embrace past life regression, you must believe in the idea of reincarnation. Many tenets of popular religion include the belief that when you die, your spirit goes to heaven and stays there. Reincarnation is the belief that our spirit or energy lives on and inhabits other bodies and lives other lives throughout the ages. Past life regression is meant to access repressed memories from previous lives so that you can learn from them as you go about this life. While far from mainstream belief, karma, reincarnation and past life regression have helped many people become happier and more successful as they live out this life’s existence.

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